Heh. Yeah, the wandering trader in Minecraft is basically a lead generator.
Category: Wandering.Shop
“Is that a *bowl of frosting?*” “I didn’t fill it all the way!”
Officially Team Moderna! Second dose scheduled for mid-May.
Officially Team Moderna! Second dose scheduled for mid-May.
No adverse reaction & so far side effects consist of a sore arm (big surprise) and why am I so freaking tired can I just take a nap (probably not) đŸ˜´
Covid-adjacent
Also, the counter and kitchen staff are mostly wearing those standard disposable surgical masks, except one has a plain black cloth mask…and one woman has a mask completely covered with sequins. If you’ve gotta pandemic, pandemic in style!
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies over and over and over and over
Waiting to pick up takeout and something in the restaurant is playing the main part of Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies over and over and over and over
I suspect it’s an alarm or ringtone or someone’s game on their phone. It’s definitely not the baseball game on the tv.
While we’re at it, why is it that device makers put so much effort into …
While we’re at it, why is it that device makers put so much effort into branding the models and generations (Galaxy S21! iPhone 12! Pixel 5!), keep the same branding across markets so they don’t need to translate it…and then not actually *label* the device with anything more specific than an Apple, Samsung, Google, etc. logo? My phone doesn’t even have a cryptic fine-print model number on it.
So, Amazon has a web page where you can look up distinguishing features of your …
So, Amazon has a web page where you can look up distinguishing features of your Kindle e-reader to figure out which model it is in case you don’t remember (or bought it second hand).
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GK33S847NN4V6Y83
Because they don’t put this in the Device Info screen for some reason.
Covid (+)
Wife got her first dose of the vaccine today. I’m scheduled for Monday. We made appointments through a provider that we’ve both been to before, so we were already in the system.
We deliberately staggered the appointments so if we both get hit by side effects, they probably won’t be at the same time.
Not sure “F/U” is the best abbreviation for “Follow up”
Not sure “F/U” is the best abbreviation for “Follow up”
Soon the struggle begins to convince the kid to actually go to bed the last …
Soon the struggle begins to convince the kid to actually go to bed the last night of spring break.
Brute force login alert from a site I manage, letting me know that an IP …
Brute force login alert from a site I manage, letting me know that an IP had been locked out: “The last username they tried to sign in with was: ‘scamnumbersalert’.”
I…why would you even expect that to work?
No, brain, Duolingo and iNaturalist are not the same. I mean yes, they’re both green …
No, brain, Duolingo and iNaturalist are not the same. I mean yes, they’re both green icons and they both have owls in them, but that’s about as far as it goes.
Thank you, Google, for your monthly reminder that you track my movements and that I …
Thank you, Google, for your monthly reminder that you track my movements and that I haven’t gone much of anywhere lately.
Heh. “Why Does Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall Volcano Look Like a School Science Project?”
Heh. “Why Does Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall Volcano Look Like a School Science Project?” And why the type of lava and type of eruption make it (comparatively) safe for people to see it up close.
Across many experiments, participants tried to fix problems by adding stuff
Interesting: “Across many experiments, participants tried to fix problems by adding stuff” even when removing something was a simpler solution.
When asked to fix something, we don’t even think of removing parts
And now I’m reminded of an essay I saw years ago about how people are more likely to ask for a preference to change application behavior than just ask it to change.
Uspol
Republicans: Corporations should be able to do whatever they want!
Also Republicans: Wait, not like that.
Kid mused about the possibility of a youtube channel that only showed coffee. So I …
Kid mused about the possibility of a youtube channel that only showed coffee. So I told him about the original webcam that monitored a break room coffee pot for years. And of course from there we ended up on the joke RFC for Hypertext Coffee Pot Control Protocol, which also introduced the error code 418 I’m a teapot (whose response body MAY be short and stout).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot
TIL how to string a guitar.
TIL how to string a guitar.
Fridge lightbulb went out. Placed a pickup order at Target for a replacement. Added a …
Fridge lightbulb went out. Placed a pickup order at Target for a replacement. Added a few other things we don’t need immediately but could use soonish, figuring why waste an extra trip later. Got a notice at 9:30 that the order was ready, figured I’d wait until morning to pick it up.
I just looked at my email. They filled everything in the order…except the lightbulb.
Kids these days. When I was his age, we NEVER had Friend Drama over who …
Kids these days. When I was his age, we NEVER had Friend Drama over who was hosting the remote video chat!